Definition of jacobin Jacobin

/ʤæˈkʌbʌn/ - [jakubun] - Jac•o•bin

We found 11 definitions of jacobin from 5 different sources.

What does jacobin mean?

Noun
jacobin - a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
		terrorist a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

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jacobin (Noun)
A Dominican friar.
jacobin (Noun)
A member of a radical French political club founded at an old Jacobin convent in 1789 and one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.
jacobin (Noun)
By extension, a political radical.
jacobin (Noun)
A breed of domestic pigeon known for its feathered hood over its head.

jacobin (n.)
A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
jacobin (n.)
One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.
jacobin (n.)
A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.
jacobin (a.)
Same as Jacobinic.

jacobin
A member of a political group that emerged in Paris at the beginning of the French Revolution, and who met in a Dominican convent.

jacobin
jak′o-bin, n. a French Dominican monk, so named from their original establishment being that of St Jacques, Paris: one of a society of revolutionists in France, so called from their meeting in the hall of the Jacobin convent: a demagogue: a hooded pigeon.—adjs. Jacobin′ic, -al.—v.t. Jac′obinise.—n. Jac′obinism, the principles of the Jacobins or French revolutionists. [Fr.,—L. Jacobus, James—Gr. Jacobos—Heb. Ya‛aqōb.]